The root of suffering is attachment

The person who masters himself through self-control and discipline is truly undefeatable.

O seeker! Rely on nothing until you want nothing.

Don't indulge in careless behaviour. Don't be the friend of sensual pleasures. He who meditates attentively attains abundant joy.

Live like a mighty river.

There is, monks, an unborn, unbecome, unmade, unconditioned. If, monks, there were no unborn... no escape would be discerned from what is born, become, made, conditioned. But because there is an unborn..., therefore an escape is discerned from what is born, become, made, conditioned.

The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task.